Parents of pupils at Dulwich College in south London yesterday called on the school's board of governors to quit over its handling of sexual harassment allegations against the headmaster which forced his resignation.

THE disgraced headmaster of Charterhouse, Peter Hobson, who resigned last week amid allegations of an affair with an escort girl, was given open support yesterday by another leading public school head.

Raymond Wilson, writer, educationalist: born 20 December 1925; English master, Dulwich College 1957-61, Chief English Master 1961-65; Lecturer in English Education, Southampton University 1965-68; Professor of Education, Reading University 1968-89 (Emeritus), Chairman of the School of Education 1969-76, 1980-89; married Gertrude Russell (two sons, one daughter); died Reading 21 March 1995.

Paul Boateng, the MP for Brent South, yesterday become the latest Labour front-bencher to be revealed as choosing an opt-out school for his own child, amid a growing backbench discontent with the weakening of the party's opposition to grant-mainta ined schools.